Nicky's Road Kill
...Nicky, the neighbor’s dog, drags a road kill home.
A beautiful pelt like those fox shoulder garments women wore in the
forties.
But the head is crushed beyond recognition—maybe it’s a fox an...
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Categories:
pye, death, dog, flower, mother
Form: Free verse
Paulie My Pet Bee
...Honeybee danced round beautiful indeed
singing in my ear and pink Joe-pye weed.
I tried to shoo it away
the hummer this summer day
a nasty sharp sting that is all I need
Twas beautiful as a su...
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Categories:
pye, flower,
Form: Limerick
Sursum Corda
...SURSUM CORDA
(for Ruth and Clement Mc Cormack,
Bridgton, Maine)
“Come see us, we’ll talk about the job."
you were convalescent, generous,
and anxious to get your hands moving
into the ...
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Categories:
pye, cancer, fate, friendship, strength,
Form: Ballad
Good and Evil
......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake
Balding and sprightly, he's filled with
bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small
Channel Island,
a re...
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Categories:
pye, fantasy,
Form: Verse
A Moral Dilemma
......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake
Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a sampli...
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Categories:
pye, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Good and Evil
......a tribute to 'Mr Pye,' a novel by Mervyn Peake
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Balding and sprightly, he's filled with
bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target...
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Categories:
pye, dedication, writing,
Form: Verse
Good and Evil
......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake
Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free;
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a repres...
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Categories:
pye, tribute, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Good and Evil
......a tribute to 'Mr Pye,' a novel by Mervyn Peake
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Balding and sprightly, he's filled with
bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target...
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Categories:
pye, fantasy,
Form: Verse
A Moral Dilemma
......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake
Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a sampling of ...
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Categories:
pye, adventure, spiritual, people, people,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Good and Evil
......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake
Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free,
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a representative samplin...
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Categories:
pye, fantasy, people, people,
Form: Rhyme
A Wild Awakening
...Springtime rain brings fresh array
of flowers east to west.
The Rockies’ red and purple tufts
of mountain pride are best.
And mats of foliage named moss pink face south to get the sun
while bu...
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Categories:
pye, naturerain, blue, rain, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
Good and Evil
......adapted from the novel 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake
Balding and sprightly, he's filled with bold dreams
to make us all happy and free;
he selects as his target a small Channel Island,
a repres...
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Categories:
pye, allegory
Form: Quatrain
Balding and Sprightly
......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake
Balding and sprightly, he's filled with
bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small
Channel Island,
a re...
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Categories:
pye, dedicationpeople, people,
Form: Narrative
American Pye
...The
drips
of Still
awakened
Pollock's expressions
to make a Lichtenstein cartoon....
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Categories:
pye, art, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Good and Evil
......adapted from 'Mr Pye' by Mervyn Peake
Balding and sprightly, he's filled with
bold dreams
to make us all happy and free.
He selects as his target a small
Channel Island,
a re...
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Categories:
pye, inspirational, people, people,
Form: Verse
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